Practical Mind-Reading: A Course of Lessons on Thought-Transference, Telepathy, Mental-Currents, Mental Rapport, &c.Atkinson, William Walker
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Practical Mind-Reading: A Course of Lessons on Thought-Transference, Telepathy, Mental-Currents, Mental Rapport, &c.
Atkinson, William Walker
Telepathy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
This feat is employed either separately, or in connection with the
Driving Feat. It consists in the performer opening the combination safe
of a hotel or some business establishment. In this case the Transmitter
must know the combination perfectly, and his mental impressions acting
upon the performer give him the cue to turn "right" or "left" or
"repeat" as the case may be. Of course one must have cultivated a great
degree of sensitiveness to mental impressions before he will be able to
receive and respond to the direction impressions in this case. And yet
almost any person by following the directions given in this work, and
carefully and repeatedly practicing the various feats and
demonstrations given herein, may be able to reproduce this feat of the
professional performer, who is in constant daily practice, and who is
able to devote his entire time to the work, as his "bread and butter" is
concerned therein. Once the sensitiveness is gained, the details of the
work are nothing more than those employed in any of the "finding" or
"drawing" feats herein described and explained.
THE OFFICE DETECTIVE FEAT.
In this feat the public committee picks out an object on the desk, or
about the office of some one of its members, the office being located
some distance from the place of meeting. The performer then rushes along
the public streets, dragging the Transmitter with him, until the office
is reached, then up stairs, and into the room selected, and up to the
desk, or other place, and lo! the object is found. Divesting this feat
of all its sensational features, the student will see that it is merely
a variation of the ordinary "finding" feat performed in the parlor. It
creates a great sensation, but there is nothing more wonderful about it
than about the simplest "finding" feat.
THE POSTOFFICE FEAT.
Another feat favored by some of the professional performers is that of
having a letter placed in a post-office lock-box, the key of which is
given the performer at a point some distance from the post-office.
Rushing through the public streets, dragging the Transmitter with him,
the performer finds the post-office in the usual way, and then locates
the lock-box, into which he inserts the key and extracts the letter,
thus triumphantly completing the feat. This feat, as every student will
see, is merely a variation of the simpler feats manifested in a
sensational manner for the purpose of public advertisement.
THE FIRE-ALARM FEAT.
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